ANNUAL REPORT—AGRICULTURE. 
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It may be well enough for our farmers and stock-breeders 
who will take courage from the foregoing figures to know, 
however, that a neighboring state, which was once a part of 
the “ territory of Wisconsin ”—which came into the Union of 
states but two years in advance of us—the area of whose cul¬ 
tivated lands is but a trifle greater than that of the improved 
lands of Wisconsin—and whose population is a little less—has 
outstripped us in the live-stock department of husbandry and is 
still advancing at a quicker pace than ours. 
Table showing the number of Horses in Wisconsin and Iowa. 
Number of Horses. 
Wisconsin. 
Iowa. 
In 1850. 
80,179 
116,180 
252, 019 
38, 536 
175,088 
482,786 
In I860. 
In 1870. 
Iowa has likewise beaten us in the raising of asses and 
mules, as will appear by the following: 
Table showing the number of Asses and Mules in Wisconsin and Iowa. 
Number of Asses and Mules. 
Wisconsin. 
Iowa. 
In 1850. 
156 
754 
In 1860. 
1,030 
4,135 
5, 734 
28,420 
In 1870. 
NEAT CATTLE. 
The increase in the nupiber of neat cattle, it will be observ¬ 
ed, has not been so marked. Indeed it has only been 51 per 
cent., as against over 100 per cent, for horses. 
Herein also we are led by Iowa, the number of whose cattle 
and the rate per cent of increase are very much greater than 
ours, as seen below : 
